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fctajisi and ,facts. The La Crosse Democrat, Brick Pome- 1 roy's old paper, has been sold by the sheriff. The highest honors of Princeton College, 1 N. J., have been borne off for the last three years by Southern students. ? Some wealthy Hebrews are going to start j a daily paper in New York, and have raised j 8500,000 for the purpose. ? Out of seven hundred and sixty-four deaths in Philadelphia last week, one half of them were iufants under one year of age. The watering places are all complain- j inor that the visitors do not come as nutuer- I o - I ously as they ought. Water-melons weighing 100 pounds b?ve appeared in Texas. Augusta, Ga., is happy with seventy pounders. Central Park, New York, is 867 acres in area, and Phoenix Park, Dublin, one of the largest city parks in the world, is 1,752 acres. Detroit, Michigan, is said to exceed all the other cities of the United States in the extent of its manufacture of fine-cut tobacco and cigars. David Wallace, of Delaware county, Indiana, lately hung himself to the same limb on which his father performed a similar act of suspension last February. The new postal cards will be three inches wide and five and one-fourth inches long, the stamp and lines to be engraved on them in a variety of colors. The Fredericksburg News says that in "Caroline county, Va., nearly all the people are candidates for the office of County Treasurer. Oue said that if he could get all the candidates to vote for him, his election was certain." There is a story of a grocer who is so ecouoraical that he sends home the bundles his customers buy, and when they arrive at the houses, has the bey empty the paper bags and bring them back with the strings they were tied up with. That's what you call a careful grocer. A new vessel is about to be built on the Clyde, to run between Liverpool and New York, of dimensions only second to the Great Eastern. Herlength is to be five hundred and seventy-six feet over all, and she is to be fifty feet beam and twenty-five feet in depth. It is expected that the great steamship will make the voyage from port to port in seven days. Mr. L. F. Post was drowned at Cape May, on the 10th instant. Mr. Post had plunged into the surf to save a boy who had got beyond his depth, and the undercurrent taking them, both perished together. Mr. Post was one of the stenographers who reported the ku-klux trials for the Columbia Union last winter, and was also employed for some time as a stenographer at the headquarters of Maj. Merrill, in Yorkville. Colonel Shorter, in conversation with Mr. Evarts, of Montana, at the Greeley headquarters in New York, said that the Democrats down South did not care a cent for Greeley's past record. Said he, "We don't ask him to go back on a single one of his life-long principles. We would not honor him as we do now if we thought he could be persuaded or paid to deny his old abolition record. We love and trust him now for his present record, his amnesty sentiments, and his earnest desire for harmony and reconciliation." The Charleston News says: "Associate Justice J. J. Wright, the colored member of the South Carolina Supreme Court, made a two-hours speech at the colored men's Convention, held in Baltimore last Wednesday. He advised his hearers to demand a fuller recognition of their civil rights and a larger share ot offices, advocated a constitutional amendment to make a foreigner competent to become President of the United States, and pitched into the Cincinnati platform extensively, especially the fourth article providing for local self-government, which he said was a revival of the doctrine of secession." Under date of New York, July 19th, the following comparative cotton statement is published: Receipts at all ports for the week 2354 bales; same time last year 10,806; total for the year 2,692,628 ; last year 3,752,554. Exports for the week, 5796; same time last year, 18,053; total for the year, 1,928,994; last year, 3,017,922. Stock at all United States ports 124,724 ; last year, 185,774; at interior towns 9,718 ; last year 16,208. At Liverpool 969,000; last year, 660,000. American afloat for Great Britain 35,000; last year, 80,000. The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, writing under date of the 15th instant, says: "A statement was made in administration quarters to-day that the President contemplates the pardon of about half the persons who were convicted of belonging to the ku-klux organization in South Carolina, and who are now undergoing imprisonment at hard labor in the Albany penitentiary. It is stated that he proposes to free all those who are known to have been ignorant and misguided, and who have been forced into the organization. None of the intelligent men or lead ers are to receive amnesty. The States in which the Irish vote exert a strong influence are California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The total estimated Irish vote of these States is 311,359, divided as follows : California 9079, Connecticut 11,273, Illinois 20,020, Indiana 4419, Missouri 9164, New Hampshire 2051, New Jersey 14,464, New York 83,134, Ohio 12,102, Pennsylvania 150,625. Total 311,350. The four States in which the German vote will exercise a great influence are Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. The total vote of these States has been estimated at 124,968, divided as follows: Pennsylvania 32,029, Ohio 36,578, Indiana 15,611, Illinois 46,750. Total 124,968. Recently, at Summit, Mississippi, a poor cripple came hobbling up to the depot, dropped his dirty bundle on the floor, and seated himself on it. After eating a piece of stale bread that he took from his ragged coat, he delivered himself thusly: "Gentlemen, don't trouble yourselves about me; I am an outcast, but not a vagrant; I am not dishonest, or I would have better clothes. I fought the Indians in Florida ; the Mexicans in Mexico ; the rebels in Virginia ; the white men in Louisiana. I have been an honest Republican ; held office under a Republican government. But when I refused to steal for them, I was not only cast out of office, but these sores tell you something of the unmerciful whipping I received at their hands. All I ask for now is to live until alter tne election, tnat i may vote for Greeley and Brown, and witness the curs as the political lash is applied to them." Three dollars and seventy-five cents was soon made up by a few rebels, a ticket was purchased to Jackson, Miss., and the old Federal soldier was sent on his way rejoicing. A case of self-immolation by a Hindoo widow has occurred in Brighton, England. The woman was the widow of one Moses Spinemaun, a rich merchant who married her in Malabar, of which country she was a native. During her residence in England she always retained her own religion and customs, and caused to be constructed 011 her husband's estate in the country a Hindoo temple, into which she went every day to offer up her devotions according to the rules of her own faith. When Spinemann died, recently, she conducted herself in the most frantic manner, tearing her hair and disfiguring her beautiful features with her nails. Her remains, consumed by fire, were subsequently discovered by the servants in the temple which she had built, and their condition clearly revealed the fact that, in accordance with the old Hindoo superstition in such matters, she had burnt herself alive. A similar case occurred a few months ago in Naples, where a woman, widow of a Hindoo grandee who had died in that city, immolated herself upon a funeral pyre, j Peterson's Counterfeit Detector, for July, j gives the following description of the new counterfeit half dollar notes, extensively circulated at present. The head of Stanton, the beard harsh and stiff, the back grounds on the right of the head irregular and scratchy. Under some of the words "fractional currency," are five lines in the ruled shade to the letters, and but four in the genuine. In the words "United States," the black spaces between the body of the letters and the ruled shades are irregular, and generally narrower than the genuine, which are of uniform width. On the back of the counterfeit, the hair lines forming the turns at the top and bottom of the Italic letters are heavy ; on the genuine, they are light and delicate. The red seal also differs materially from the genuine in the form of the letters, which are irregular, and on both sides of the letters, and the rules forming the back-ground to the shield. The fibre paper j on which the geuuine notes are printed has been imitated by scratchy lines engraved on the counterfeit plate. On examination with a glass, it will be seen that the entire work differs from the genuine. ibr (inquirer. YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 25, 1872. Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wisn tneir papers discontinued, the date must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must bo distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash, in advance lVORN OUT LAND. In the State of South Carolina there is a vast amount of land which has been rendered worthless by an extravagant mode of culture. In some of the upper counties of the State, nearly one half of the cleared land is washed into gullies. The hill-sides were run in cotton year after year as long as they lasted, and now they are turned out as useless. The results are two-fold. The land is worn out and valueless, and the owners are not worth a cent more than they were when they commenced to cultivate it. In many cases, not one dime has been laid up with which to purchase other land. The owner of these lands is growing poorer and poorer every year. His landed estate is decreasing in value every crop that is produced upon it. This ought not to be the case. By a proper mode of cultivation, land will increase in fertility every year, and consequently increase in value. This can never be accomplished so long as the hill-sides and rolling lands are planted in corn and cotton. No system of hill-side ditches will prevent this kind of land from washing away. By a law of nature it is obliged to give way before the rains of summer. Ifit is not washed into gullies, all the substance will be washed out of it in a few years. This is in perfect harmony with the principles of natural philosophy; and in luub it ia ueiuuusLiaicu iu uc tuo u?c. vn an average our rich and fertile hill-sides do not last more than ten years when cotton or corn is exclusively cultivated. At this rate the globe itself would not last the cotton farmers long. The way to prevent this wear and tear of the hills is to sow them in grass. This will do for the hills what no ditches can be made to to do. In western Virginia there are hills so steep that a cow can not ascend them, but by a tedious, circuitous route. If these hills were ; worked in corn or cotton for but a few years, ! they would be worthless. As it is, they are j regarded as of great value. As soon as these ! hills are cleared and one crop is taken off, | then they are sown down in grass and in a | few years a sod is formed which effectually I holds the soil. Instead of getting poorer, it j gets richer every year. The same thing can ! be done in South Carolina. There are enough J of worn out hills in South Carolina, if they ; were reclaimed and sown in clover, to feed ' ' /? ? 1 t mi , thousands ot sheep, cows ann nogs, inose who have made the experiment say that an acre of good land well prepared in the spring or fall, and then let grow up in common crabgrass, will pay its owner better than toplantit in cotton, work it well and make a good crop. The expenses in the one case are comparatively nothing; in the other they are enormous. The expense of making the cotton is very great and the exhaustion of the land incalculable. We are convinced that the theory will hold good in practice when the experiment is made upon hill-sides. Some men tell us that corn and cotton do not exhaust land. This theory comports badly with facts. A blind man who can not see gullies might be induced to give credence to such a declaration ; but it is hard to understand how any man with two good eyes could j believe such a statement. In this case, as in every other, facts are stubborn things. The true policy of South Carolina farmers is to cultivate the level lands and sow the hill-sides in clover and grass. Such a system of farm I ing would do wonders towards renovating the i soil and replenishing the purses of its owners. THE NORTH CAROLINA ELECTION. The attention of the whole country seems ; now to be directed to the North Carolina election, which will take place on Thursday next, j Importance is attached to the election from , the fact that it is the first one to occur after ; the inauguration of the Presidential camI paign, and additional interest is manifested by the people of the State in consequence of j the apparent disinterested manner in which 1 they are instructed by distinguished politicians of both parties from abroad?including j members of Grant's Cabinet?who have come ! all the way to North Carolina for the puri pose of enlightening them as to the best and | surest way to save the country in this her j supposed hour of peril. ! What the effect of this will be, or as to 1 how the State will vote, can at this time be only conjecture. Of course, the representaj tives and mouth-pieces of both parties claim i equally the most flattering chances of success. >Boutwell,on his return to Washington, after j making two speeches in the State, reports ! that the Republicans will carry the election by from 10,000 to 15,000 majority, while the i Democracy profess to be equally sanguine, j The one party has the money?the other the : ftlonuence : but whether Radical dollars will | outweigh Democratic rhetoric is yet to be 1 seen. 4. 4 I The Ku-Klux Law Unconstitutional. A correspondent of the Wilmington Journal, | writing from Newton, N. C., reports that Gov. Vance said that "he had been informed by Mr. Reverdy Johnson and Montgomery Blair that the Supreme Court of the United States had decided the Ku-Klux law unconstitution: al in one of the South Carolina cases, and that ! the opinion of the court was purposely withheld until after the election." Hon. J. Duncan Allen, of Barnwell, is announced as a convert to the Republican i party. Previous to reconstruction, Allen was Senator from Barnwell. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? A Horace Greeley base ball club has been formed in Charleston. ? A Liberal Republican club was organized in Charleston on Thursday last. ? A fat, clumsy boy, in the village of Timmonsville, Darlington county, has learned to walk a wire like Professor Bond. ? A child died in Barnwell, a short time ago, from having accidentally swallowed a draught of concentrated lye. ? Mr. James Anderson, lately appointed Superintendent of the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta. Railroad, has entered upon the duties of the position. ? TV "R. IT Jordan and Allen Leard. of Chester, have been licensed by the Examining Board of the State University, as druggists and pharmaceutists. ? Winnsboro is to have a brass band, composed of a number of the white citizens of the town. The instruments have been ordered. ? In a communication published in the Anderson Intelligencer, Mr. W. D. Evans challenges Judge Orr to a public discussion of the issues of the present political campaign. ? Shadrach Harris killed Charles Creyon, near Ridgeway, in Fairfield county, one day last week, by stabbing him with a knife. The murderer escaped. Both are colored. ? United States Marshal R. M. Wallace, has appointed Mr. J. A. Beattie a special deputy marshal for the State at large. Beattie was a mail-agent on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad. ? Mr. Edward F. Stokes, of Greenville, who at the last election was a candidate for Congress, made a straight-out democratic speech in Columbia on Friday night last. "Hurra! for Stokes." ? J. C. Featherston, of Anderson ; T. B. Milford and R. T. McCasland, of Abbeville; and W. H. Watson, of Greenville, deny that they belong to Governor Orr's party, or that they are willing to vote for Grant. ? Mr. A. M. Gilreath. aced about twentv four years, who resided near Pickens Court House, while laboring under mental derangement, committed suicide on Saturday morning of last week, by shooting himself with a pistol. ? The Phoenix gives currency to a rumor that Col. William Johnson has resigned the presidency of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad Company. Colonel R. R. Bridges, President of the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta railroad, is mentioned as his successor. ? Judge Bryan, of the District Court of South Carolina, has received a communication from the Attorney General of the United States, informing him that only such prisoners as are sentenced by the United States Court to hard labor, are hereafter to be sent to the Albany Penitentiary. ? William Sartor, of Union county, recently arrested in Lexington on the charge of violating the "enforcement act," was last week taken before Commissioner Boozer in Columbia, by order of Judge Bryau, and admitted to bail in the sum of $10,000 for his appearance before the United State Court. ? Mr. James L. Rosborough, freight agent in Columbia for the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad Company, died at Blackstocks, in Chester county, on the 17th instant. Mr. Rosborough will be remembered by many persons in York, from his connection with the commissary department of the 12th Regiment, S. C. V., during the war. ? The Circuit Court for Union county convened on Tuesday of last week and adjourned on the following Thursday afternoon. Judge Montgomery Moses presided. The Times mentions that "one petit thief was sentenced ?? 'ml A\?? ititA Anflio n IU 111IJHISUlllueilL 111 JUll 1U1 m u niuii uic , u colored forger of money orders was sentenced to one year's imprisonment, and a white person convicted af assault and battery was ordered to pay a fine of thirty-five dollars and costs, or be imprisoned for four months." ? The Chester Reporter of last week says : "Mr. William Hollis, of our county, met with an unfortunate accident on Sunday last. He was returning from church at the time, and his horse for some reason or other taking fright and running away, he was thrown violently from his buggy, sustaining a very serious and painful injury. Mr. Hollis promptly received the professional services of Dr. Babcock, who does not consider his wounds of a fatal character." ? Thos. W. Blease, Dr. W. B. King, Geo. Turner, William Turner, William Terry, J. E. Hamilton, R. S. Towles, J. L. Terry, Jas. P. Merchant, Mack Smith, Jesse Riddle, D. A. J. Bell and William Wheeler, were recently arrested in Edgefield, charged with violating the "enforcement act." The special act charged against them was riding a disorderly negro on a rail about two years ago. After examination before Commissioner Boozer, they were bailed in the sum of three thousand dollars each. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Carl Schurz has promised to speak to the Conservatives of Greensboro next Saturday. | ?John Workman, mail-carrier between j Hillsboro and Milton, has been bound over for J trial on a charge of robbing the mail, j ?Sweet potatoes of the new crop have appeared in Wilmington and are selling at 81 a peck. ? An extra term of the Superior Court of Mecklenburg, for the trial of civil cases only, will commence on Monday the 5th of August. ? The Wilmington Star of Saturday says that a company of U. S. troops have entered Sampson county with warrants for the arrest of about one hundred citizens. ? Senator Wilson, Republican candidate i for Vice-President, spoke at Wilson on the ; 17th, at Wilmington on the 18th, and at New| bern on the 20th. i ? During a thunder storm last week, one 1 soldier was killed and three others injured by I lighting at Fort Macon. The sufferers are prisoners at the fort. i ?The Charlotte Observer learns that H. Crawford Lemond, a young man engaged in merchandizing at Monroe, Union county, committed suicide on Saturday of last week. ? At a meeting of the Democratic State Expmifivfi Committee, recentlv held in Raleicrh. Gov. Vance and Hon. T. J. Jarvis were elected Presidential electors for the State at large. ? The Executive Committee of the North Carolina Liberal Republicans have issued a circular, instructing the party to endorse and support the Democratic-Conservative State ticket, headed by Merrimon for Governor. ? On Sunday of last week, lightning struck the stable of James Henderson, near Pelham, in Caswell county, and burnt up the stable, three horses and his entire crop of wheat stored in a granary attached to the stable. Loss !about $2000. ? During a Greeley and Brown ratification meeting in Raleigh on the 17th instant, Samuel Cross, a colored marshal on the occasion, was attacked by a mob of colored men, and badly beaten. He saved his life only by escaping to police headquarters. The ringlead- J ers have been bound over for trial. ' ?The following new money-order-offices have been authorized in North Carolina: Hickory Tavern, Shelby, Thomasville, Company Shops, Milton, and Battleboro. ? The Democrats gave a barbecue at Gibsonville, 6fteen miles east of Greensboro, on Thursday last, which was attended by about 1000 persons. Besides the local speakers present, Senator Tipton, of Nebraska, addressed the crowd. I ? A few days ago, in the neighborhood of Mount Airy, a brute named Heldrige, becomJ ing enraged at his little son, aged four yeart, aimed a blow at him with an axe. The mother of the child warded off the blow, and in the attempt to save her child had her hand nearly cut off. ? Mr. Rickstraw, of Cheraw, S. C., who was severely injured by an accident on the Wil j raington, Columbia and Augusta railroad some months ago, and who has been in the Wilmington.Hospital under treatment, has at length recovered and returned to his home, the railroad company having satisfactorily settled the damages. ? A statement is published to the effect that collectors of United States internal revenue, embracing some of those who have held the position in each collection district, have been defaulters to the amount of 8465,903.30. One collector in the fifth district failed to the amount of 850,000, and his successor, who came to Greensboro a sutler in Gen. Cox's Corps, was a defaulter,in the sum of 8166,290.09. ? Secretary Boutwell made a speech in Greensboro on the 17th, and at Charlotte on the 18th, in behalf of Republicanism. From the various accounts we have received, we are inclined to the opinion that the Secretary did not excite much enthusiasm in North Carolina.. At Greensboro he did not address more than two hundred persons, all told, and at Charlotte his hearers did notexceed fourhun dred. His speeches were mainly devoted to a defense of the financial policy of the administration. ? The "Wilmington Star reports that on Saturday last, Tom Lowrey, one of the Robeson county outlaws, was waylaid and shot by Robert Wishart, a youth 19 years of age, and brother of Capt. F. M. Wishart, who was killed some time ago by Lowrey. The body of Lowrey was in Lumberton when the Wilmington-bound train passed that place on Saturday. Young Wishart will be entitled to a reward of $5000 from the State, and $500 from the county of Robeson for this exploit. There are now but two of the gang remaining? Stephen Lowrey and Andrew Strong. POLITICAL ITEMS. ?Nasby calls Greeley "The Bushwhacker of Chappaqua." ? John G. Saxe, the poet, has announced his intention to take the stump for Greeley in Maine. ? Lieut. Gov. Pinch back, colored, of Louisiana, has declared for Greeley and Brown, and will stump his State for tho Liberal nominees. ? The electoral vote of the next Presidential election will aggregate 326, making 184 necessary to a choice. ? One hundred colored men have united in a letter to Mr. Sumner, praying his advice in the present political situation. ? The Charleston Courier gives currency to ? . i l a rumor that several prominent coioreu men, of Northern birth, inteud coming to South Carolina to take the stump for Greeley and Brown. ? It is stated upon the authority of Colonel Ethan Allen, Chairman of the Liberal Republican National Committee, that Charles Sumner has consented to deliver half a dozen speeches in favor of Greeley and Brown in the Southern States. ? Hon. Robert Toombs, of Georgia, and Judge Mackey, of South Carolina, think that "no Southern man can ever object to vote for a man because of his radicalism, after having voted for Horace Greeley." ? It begins to crop out that the carpet-baggers will not be able to carry the colored vote of the South for Grant so unanimously as they and their employer expected. The intelligent negroes are finding out that the "Union Leagues" are leagues for the promotion of the selfish interests of unscrupulous white Radicals at their expense. ? The New York Tribune publishes a letter from a prominent German, showing that, with one exception, every German Republican paper which favored the Cincinnati movement civfis a cordial sunDort to its candidates : *" "" O & A that the lending Germans are all going the same way, and that a larger portion of the Germans than has ever before been united on one candidate, will be cast for the Liberal ticket in November. ? Mr. Lincoln's first Cabinet consisted of Messrs. Seward, Chase, Cameron, W elles, Blair, Smith and Bates. The two last named are dead. Cameron is for Grant; Chase, Welles and Blair are for Greeley ; Seward is uncommitted. When Lincoln first became President there were thirty-one Republicans in the Senate. Of these Senators six are dead; thirteen are for Grant and ten for Greeley. The opinions of the two others are unknown. ? Horace Greeley declines to aid in the establishment of new Liberal Republican papery In reply to a letter received a few days ago, soliciting such aid, he said: "I decline decidedly to ask my friends to furnish money to sustain a newspaper in Washington. I do not consider this a legitimate political expenditure. If the people will not support newspapers that favor my election, we must get on without them as we may." ( ? W. U. Sanders, the colored Maryland exGrant elector, who has changed his position in favor of Greeley, is now canvassing in North Carolina. He writes from that State to Senator Sumner that from all he can gather it will be carried by the conservatives in the election two weeks from to-day by a large majority. He adds that since his arrival in North Carolina he has been treated just as any white man, and received all the privileges that Mr. Sumner's new civil rights bill proDosed to euarantee. Saunders says he is sue & w ceeding in dividing the colored vote. ? In accepting the democratic nomination for Congress, D. W. Vorhees made a long and carefully prepared speech at Spencer, Ind., on the 18th. He gave his adherence to the Greeley ticket, though he thought many democratic statesmen could have been elected President over Grant. He thought the administration of public affairs in the South had been the worst ever known in the history of civilized people, and he could not wonder at the demand from that section for anybody to defeat the reelection of Grant. They believe the election of Greeley will afford them relief, and therefore they demanded his nomination. It had been accorded more in deference to their condition and their wishes than any | other cause. If Greeley is elected he will stand pledged by the strongest obligations i that ever rested upon a candidate to accord ! the South the blessing of a just, kind and fra-! ternal government. Failing in this, he would j be accursed among men. ' EDITORIAL INKLINGS. The Kidnapping Case. A despatch from London, Ontario, Canada, dated the 16th instant, furnishes the following particulars in relation to the trial of Cornwall, the Canadian officer, who assisted in the kidnapping of Dr. J. Rufus Bratton, of Yorkville: "The case of Dr. J. Rufus Bratton, al> ducted from Canada on the 4th of June and j taken to South Carolina, came tip on remand to-day. Bratton arrived here Saturday, but j kept concealed until after the opening of the | court, when he made his appearance, to the great surprise of the defendants. His testij mony shows that Cornwall, the prisoner, laid 1 violent hands upon him on Waterloo street, and handcuffed him, and with the assistance of the cab driver, thrust him into the cars ; and that he protested to the last, and only yielded because he relied on British justice to sustain him in the end." A later despatch announces the conviction of Cornwall, and his sentence to imprisonment in the penitentiary for three years. The Condition of the Cotton Crop. The following is a summary of the July cotton crop report by the Department of Agriculture at Washington. The report is dated July 19: The past month has been generally favorable to cotton. Slight areas have been affected by drought, but rains were quite general during the latter part of June on the Atlantic coast. Showers have been so frequent and plenty since June 20, as to delay cultivation and promote the growth of weeds and grass. Before that date, a season of comparative drought of seven or eight weeks had been suffered in a portion of this district, while other counties represent the weather as having been uniformly favorable. The figures representing condition are as follows: Virginia, 96 ; North Carolina, 94; South Carolina, 97; Georgia, 101; Florida, 102: Alabama. 106: Mississippi, 109; Lou isiana, 103; Texas, 105; Arkansas, 95; Tennessee, 104. Taking into consideration the relative importance of the States in production, the general average of condition would be about 103. As a whole, the July returns of the present year indicate a higher average of condition than those of any previously reported, except 1868. The Growing Cotton Crop. The committee of information of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange has published its monthly statement of the growing cotton crop. The report is dated July 6, and contains details of information from all the cotton States. The general tenor of the accounts is favorable. The cotton worm has appeared in some localities, but not to a sufficient extent to occasion alarm; the worst feature so far being the fact that the weather is now such as to promote the increase of this ' pest. The indications are favorable for a full ; yield in Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, North : Carolina, Georgia and Mississippi. In Louisiana and South Carolina an average yield is looked for, while in Texas the crop will be very large, provided the weather continues favorable. Perhaps the worst account comes from Arkansas, where only a bare average is anticipated, even under the most favorable conditions of the weather. But all the accounts from all the States concur in representing the croD as in a much more promising condition, and as looking and doing better than even at this time last year. The New i Orleans Price Current, an excellent authority l on the subject, estimates the crop at 4,000,I 000 bales, and later information received at j the Department of Agriculture, Washington, I confirms this view, i A Noble Benefaction.. j The Trustees of the Louisville Medical i College, (Louisville, Ky.,) have created one of the most liberal benefactions ever conferred by a public institution. They have instituted one Beneficiary Scholarship for each Congressional District in all of the States. By this means very many poor but deserving young men will be enabled to obtain a thorough medical education. Any one wishing to take advantage of this benefaction should write to Dr. E. S. Gaillard, Dean of the Faculty of the Louisville Medical College, Louisville, Ky., when he will receive a college catalogue with full information in regard to all that is necessary for him to do to secure one of these scholarships. With a proper delicacy the names of those who have secured the beneficiary scholarships will be known only to the Dean of the Faculty. The next College session begins October 1st, 1872. As the lecture fees charged for each student who has not obtained a beneficiary scholarship amount to $120 annually, the public can appreciate the extent of this benefaction. Candidates for Office. ? ? " ' i rr ? jj i?'rom the uoiumoia union ox outuruuy last, we clip the following pertinent paragraph in regard to candidates for the Legislature: Another office of supreme importance to the people is that of legislator. Thousands upon thousands of dollars have been annually squandered by the General Assembly in one way and another, and the people should insist upon a pledge from the candidates nominated for these positions, that they will use every effort to economize in the expenditure of public funds for legislative expenses. A candidate who is unwilling to make such a pledge is unfit for position in a legislative body, which not only has to provide ways and means by which the State government is to be carried on, but has much to do also with the proper disposition of the public money. A man who is extremely anxious for a nomination to the General Assembly and is willing to expend money to secure his nomination and election, must expect in some way to reimburse himself for his expense and trouble. He cannot do this honestly from his salary as a legislator. By law, no member of the General Assembly is entitled to more than six hundred dollars per aunurn, in addition to mileage, which in no case would exceed seven hundred dollars; and yet we hear of men who are willing to pay twice this sum to be nominated. Cau such men be honest ? We think not. The Jews and Jerusalem. The Jewish Timed, published in New York, mentions the return to America of Prof Gratz and Messrs. Levy, Potzin and Gottschalk, from Palestine. Their report on the condition of the Jews in Palestine is set down by the Times as "an additional argument against the folly of encouraging the emigration of the Jews to a country which has no other claim than that of a venerable monument of the past." There are now, it appears, about 16,000 Jews living in Palestine, and i "their averaee state of culture is much below I " that of their fellow-religionists in Europe. They have no visible means of support, spend their time in idleness, praying and Talmud reading, and foolish pining and sighing on i j the ruins of the temple, eking out a misera-j ble existence by the charity of the Jews in ! Europe, America and Australia." Curiously i enough, the memorial of their visit by Prof. | Gratz and his companions also suggests "the I general elimination from all Jewish prayerj books of the portions referring to the hopes of I Israel in the restitution of the Holy Land to ! the possession of Israel, and the rebuilding of the Temple by Divine Providence." The Times considers it "not only a folly but a I crime to feed the sicklv imagination of poor,! ignorant people by the hallucination, as if one j spot on earth had a greater value in the eyes ! of God, and prayers sent up to heaven from a certain locality find sooner a hearing from the throne divine." Political Speculations. <. A correspondent of the Beaufort Republican, writing from Columbia, speculates as follows in regard to the aspirants for nomination as Governor and Treasurer by the Radical Convention, which is to assemble at Columbia on the 21st of next August: The Governorship.?All interest centers in the Governorship and Treasurership. These represent power and money. The men who hold these offices control tb& party. .Moses has the field at present for Governor, but he will be weaker in the convention than before the people. As sure as he is nominated there will be a bolt. Orr is much more talked of than liked. Moses hates him and will prevent his nomination. Orr is determined to try for it. He has the assistance of Tom Mackey, who has completely deserted Gov. Scott. He is engaged in asserting all that he so ably denied when he was writing Gov. fipnt.f.'s mp-ssflprft last fall. There are manv who believe that Scott will have a good deal of influence with the convention, and that he may after all be the man. He, however, asseverates his disgust with the cares of office and the ingratitude of politicians. He may well feel angry when he reflects that his bitterest revilers owe what influence they have to him. Chamberlain is sometimes talked of as a candidate likely to heal all dissensions in our ranks, but while there is a kindlv feeling for him and great respect for his abilities, it. is felt that he has assented to the worst acts charged upon the State government Dr. Neagle is quietly, slowly but surely gaining strength for Governor. It will be found that he is more formidable as the canvass progresses. Tite Treasurer.?Parker, Cardozo, and Noah are the only announced candidates. Of the first, it is necessary to enumerate his claims upon the office. He will enter upon the canvass with the prestige of past successes and present occupancy, and although he has many enemies he ought to be able to make many friends. - ., . Cardozo is lively. He is striving to unite himself with a strong candidate for Governor. He bases his strength upon his personal honesty and his color. ? Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. A TOUR IN THE NORTH. Washington, D. C., July 18,1872. After writing my last letter to the Enquirer from Nashville. Tennessee, I started out for a little trip in the North. I left Nashville on the 5th of July, and came on to Cincinnati, stopping over night at Louisville. Louisville is a smart city, of over a hundred thousand population, and entering into lively competition with Cincinnati for the control of Southern trade. The great Democratic organ of the south-west?the CourierJournal?is published there, whose master mind is Henry Watterson. To such of the readers of the Enquirer as saw a portrait of Mr. Watterson in a late number of Harper's Weekly, I will state that the likeness is a good one. Mr. Watterson is from the mountains of Tennessee, and is only thirtytwo years of age. Coming on to Cincinnati, I crossed the great railroad bridge at that point for the first time. Upon the train was the Mississippi delegation to the Baltimore Convention, and fragments of other Southern delegations. They were all for Greeley, of course, and said that they were going to bring the North "up to the scratch," as well as come up to it themselves. How well they succeeded the readers of the Enquirer are aware. Mr. Greeley and the Liberals are indebted to the South for the inauguration of the Liberal movement, and it is the South that will push him forward to triumph. I remained in Cincinnati two days. The city is getting to be a good deal like Pittsburg, a black cloud of smoke hanging over it all the time. It is now the third largest manufacturing city on the continent. Right across the river from Cincinnati, is Covington, the second largest city in Keu tucky. "Within a radius of ten miles from the centre of Cincinnati, there is a population of over three hundred and twenty thousand. Politically, there is a vast difference between Cincinnati and its neighbors over the river. Ohio is strongly Republican and Kentucky strongly Democratic. Kentucky will go for Greeley by a majority of forty thousand. Ohio will be close, with the chances in fa"or of Grant. The regular Republican majority is between twenty and thirty thousand. I came from Cincinnati to Cleveland on a fast train, part of the way over a new road, and all the way through a charming country. Ohio is a very rich State; rich in population, soil, natural advantages, aud manufacturing interests. Although one among the comparatively new States of the Union, the tax books show a total of real and personal property to the value of two thousand millions of dollars! Cleveland is a beautiful city of about one hundred thousand population, situated on the south-eastern shore of Lake Erie. In 1860 the population was about forty-two thousand. The rapid growth of the city is owing to its manufacturing interests. From Cleveland I took the Atlantic and Wootorn rnnrl find nrocfieded as far as vi^au ?f wouv* M , ? Olean, New York. Wanting to see something of rural New York and Pennsylvania, I hired a horse and buggy and drove tweutyeight miles into McKean county, Pennsylvania, making the distance in four hours, the roads being good and the horse considerable of a traveler. The whole country through which I passed is improving very rapidly. Wages are good, money plenty and the country prosperous. I made some inquiry about wages, &c., and learned that men and teams got four dollars and a half a day, men two dollars a day and boys from sixteen to twenty dollars a month aud board. After rambling about in the woods of Pennsylvania a few days, I returned to western New York, and went thence to the black and j thriving city of Pittsburg. There I took the Pennsylvania Central road for Harrisburg, aud caine thence through Baltimore to Washington. The readers of the Enquirer are of course more interested about politics than anything else, and I will sum up the result of my observations in a few lines. New York and Pennsylvania I consider certain for Greeley. The State election in the latter State is in October, and I met many Kepublicans who conceded that the State is lost to them. From ten to twenty per cent, of the republican vote will go for Greeley. While in the State I met Dr. Freeman, who has resigned his position as Grant elector for the Nineteenth District, to support Greeley, and he gave me the names of forty-one republicans in two small districts of one county who will support Greeley. All over the State the radicals are more or less despondent, and the democrats correspondingly jubilant. Hartranflt, the radical nominee for Governor, is very unpopular, and cannot commaud the strength of his party, while his opponent, Buckalew, is a strong man and can carry all of his own party and a good many of the republicans. He is certain to win in October, and Greeley is certain to sweep the State in November. I come back from the North with the belief that Greeley will be elected, a belief that was not strong before I went there. Nemo. LOCAL ITEMS. OUR AGENT8 IN CHARLESTON. The advertising agency of Messrs. Walker, Evans & Cogswell, represented by Roswell T. Logan, Esq., is the only authorized agency of this paper in Charleston. DE8ERTION OF SOLDIERS. The pay-roaster visited this poet again on Thursday last and paid offthe troops stationed here. Since that tirae five soldiers belonging to troop K, of the 7th Cavalry, have deserted. All of these nlefh'are "new recruits," only having enlisted last winter. APPOINTMENT RECOMMENDED. Wf lje^9 ,tfrat oar young townsmaa, Frecl Adickes, has been recommended by Congress mam WT a 11 a rtA fna annAin^monf O a a Carln.' Q f i Li a Li Yv annuo iui a^^vitjbiuouu oa m VMUW M* the West Point Military Academy from this Congressional District . It is proper to remark that a recommendation in such cases is equivalent to an appointment. KITCHEN DESTROYED BY FIRE. We learn that the kitchen on the premises of Mr. 0. J. Gwinn, on Turkey Creek, in this county, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday of last week. At the time of the ocburrence, the white members of the family were all absent from home, and it is supposed that the fire was the result of accident The loss is estimated at about fifty, dollars, including building, cooking utensils, Ac. THE UNITED STATES COURT. Rumors have been in circulation for several days that the special term of the United States Circuit Court, which at the last term was ordered to be held at Columbia, on' the ^ first Monday of J August, will not convene. After inquiry, we learn that the rumor is probably correct, and that the Court anil not beheld. The reason assigned for not'holding the Court is that "a Judge cannot be found to preside." ACCIDENT TO A SOLDIER. On Friday last, Sergeant Bobo, of Co. C, 7th Cavalry, arrived here from Lincolnton, N. C., in charge of a soldier for trial before the Court Martial in session at this place. The Sergeant was assigned quarters in the Rose hotel building, and on Saturday night stepped from one of the second story windows ""J fnll nmiinil o rliatanpA nf nhnnt. auu 1C11 IAJ bliv giUUiiU} mm v? fifteen feet. By the fall his left arm was broken below the elbow and he sustained some other injuries, not, however, of a serious nature. It is stated that his fall occurred in consequence of his having mistaken the window for a door?the sill of the window being only M about a foot above the floor. THE CIRCUIT COURT. Our report of the proceedings of the Circuit Court Inst week embraced the business which had been despatched up to the time of the adjournment of the Court on Tuesday afternoon. On Wednesday morning the sessions business before the Court was resumed. In the cases of M. McGary and Charles Stewart, soldiers, and John and William Williams, citizens, charged with riot and* tumult, the jury, after trial, rendered a verdict of "not guilty." i >: Lawrence Withers, white, and Andrew Bridges, colored, were convicted of burglary and larceny. Withers was sentenced to five years' imprisonment in the penitentiary, and Bridges to three years. John Grier, colored, was convicted of bigamy and sentenced to five years' imprisonment in the penitentiary at hard labor. Joseph Wright, colored, was convicted of larceuy and sentenced to two years' imprison ment in ine pemtenuary. James H. Barry, who was convicted at a previous terra of the Court of assault and battery on Hon. A. S. Wallace, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, or to pay a fine of one hundred dollars. The fine was paid, whereupon Barry was discharged from custody. This is the notorious milk affair, which attracted so much attention last summer. A number of cases of debt were submitted to the jury, but in every instance, with one exception, they declined to "scale" the debts, and gave verdicts for the full amounts claimed. The exception referred to was a case in which the parties concerned desired the debt to be reduced by the jury. The Court adjourned on Saturday afternoon until the first Monday of November next, when Judge Mackey will preside. Previous to adjournment the following preamble and resolutions were adopted by the Bar: At a meeting of the undersigned, members of the Yorkville Bar. held July 20,1872, W. I. Clawson, Esq., was called to the chair, and W. B. Williams, Esq., was requested to act as secretary. ; It being announced that the close of the present term of the Circuit Court would terminate the * official duties of the Hon. William M. Thomas, Judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit, on motion, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: Whereas, The official term of the Hon. Win. M. Thomas, Judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit, is about drawing to a close, we the members of the Ynrk ville Bar. feelinir desirous of offering some tribute in commemoration of the kindly relations that have subsisted betweon the Bench and the Bar, during the official term of Judge Wm. M. Thomas, be it Resolved? 1. That we shall ever cherish with the kindest recollections the marked courtesy, urbanity and patience of Judge Thomas in his official labors at this Bar in the discharge of its onerous duties. 2. That in parting from him, we desire to place on record this tribute of kindly remembrance, and to extend to him our heartfelt wishes for his future welfare and prosperity. 3. That a copy of this preamble and resolutions be furnished to Judge Thomas, and that the Clerk of this Court be requested to enter the same upon the minutes. W. I. Clawson, J. S. R. Thomson, W. B. Wilson, W. B. Williams, James F. Hart, T. J. Bell. Judge Thomas responded to the resolutions as follows: Gentlemen of the Yorkville Bab : I thank you for the kind feelings which animate your resolutions. Four years ago I came among you a olrannn. o illtlinv fn fllA mftSt of Villi cumpainti vc nw?u^vi j ? j?...w?. ? ...ww? ~~ J in the legal profession, and of a different political party; yet I have never known anything but the utmost courtesy, good feeling, and that respect which is due the Bench, characterising our intercourse. It has been so pleasant that I now leave you with regret. While this is so, my administration of justice here has encountered a series of simoons which made shipwreck of my career. First came the ku-klux, against whom our Courts were impotent. You will all bear me out that I did my duty as a Judge, and as a citizen in my private intercourse, to suppress these troubles ana bring the guilty parties to trial. But the imbecility of the State government, to whom your sheriff and I applied for aid, rendered all my efforts unavailing. In this emergency, the United States troops arrived upon the stage of action, and I looked forward to their assistance in maintaining the supremacy of the law. But I was sadly disappointed. Under misrepresentations that there had been outrages committed in the county since the roturn of tne Congressional Investigating Committee to Washington, the writ of habeas corpus was suspended, and under this unbridled license the military rode down the law, made war upon a ncaceable and defenceless people, and turned this Temple of Justice into a farce. I endeavored to prevent these outrages by taking the position that the military was auxiliary to the civil authority, and that the troubles which had occurred in the county, were properly recognizable in the State Courts. For this, the same military, at the succeeding session of the Legislature, by a very improper interference with its members, made me the first martyr to a principle which I conscientiously hold, and which now rises in the North as a polar-star for the emancipation of the white men of our State. If, then, in after days, in recalling to your minds those scenes in which we have been connected, you can associate your recollections of me in aught with that angelic spirit which is now Eervaaing the land, tapping upon every northern eart, ana pleading for justice, peace, reconciliation and the Constitution, my regret will turn to joy, and my retirement result in a greater victory. Gentlemen, each one of you has my kindest regards. I bid you Good-bye. The New York Sun says that Mr. A. T. Stewart a few days ago sent his check for $20,000 to the Chairman of the Democratic Republican National Executive Committee.